Expertise
Alexandra has particular experience working with interest groups, non-profits and charities, providing legal focus to campaigns. She advises clients on all aspects of international human rights law, including freedom of expression, privacy, the right to a fair trial and prohibitions on torture and genocide. She also advises individuals and corporates on reputation issues. Her practice includes pre and post-publication advice and Internet-related issues.
Alexandra also has experience as a general commercial litigator acting for both claimant and defendant. In addition to her work in the High Court, she is able to advise in relation to arbitration proceedings.
Key Experience and Clients
- Formulating a lobbying strategy for a major UK charity.
- Advising a minority interest group on ways to combat discrimination in British universities.
- Advising on the potential for reversing the alarming increase in the worldwide availability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
- Drafting a report on the nature and history of the fair trial and the "show trial".
- Fighting the proposed trade union boycotts of the Israeli academic community. The boycott has been described as "a significant threat to the free communication of ideas and thus to the fundamental principles of academic freedom".
- Assisting the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism in the preparation and publication of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in the UK report.
- Representing a coalition of Olympic athletes on Freedom of Expression issues arising at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Career History
| 2006 |
Assistant, Mishcon de Reya |
| 2004 |
Trainee, Mishcon de Reya |
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Oxford University, Modern History |
Articles and Publications
Discrimination and UK Employment Law: The Impact of Global Conflict on Domestic Legislation (co-authored with James Libson for the New York State Bar Association Journal);
We must have equality before the law (The Guardian, 4 July 2008);
Torch of freedom? (The Guardian, 23 August 2008).
Awards and Accolades
- Alexandra was short listed for the 2008 Women Of The Future Awards in the professions category.
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